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Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text…Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text…
Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text is expounded and cleared, and such profitable instructions observed, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holy Scripture, and are fit for these times. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text is exponded and cleered, and such profitable instructions obserued, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holie Scripture, and are fit for these times. By Iohn Dovvname Bacheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston and T. East for William Welby, 1608
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, we may observe the corrupt nature of sinful 1man, who when he is in trouble and affliction, assayeth all other means for his deliverance, before he flieth unto God for help: so here the Israelites being hedged in with afflictions, flee unto their Idols. So Saul went to the witch, Asa to the Physicians, the Papists to their Saints and Images. And thus many make gods unto themselves, for their deliverance, of their friends, riches, or of their own power and policy: when as being in trouble and affliction they do not in the first place flee unto the Lord for help, but rest upon these means, until they be altogether deprived of them, or have experience of their insufficiency in yielding unto them any help.
Fourthly, wee may obserue the corrupt nature of sinfull 1man, who when he is in trouble and affliction, assayeth all other meanes for his deliuerance, before he flieth vnto God for helpe: so here the Israelites being hedged in with afflictions, flee vnto their Idols. So Saul went to the witch, Asa to the Physitions, the Papists to their Saints and Images. And thus many make gods vnto themselues, for their deliuerance, of their friends, riches, or of their owne power and policie: when as being in trouble and affliction they do not in the first place flee vnto the Lord for helpe, but rest vpon these meanes, vntill they be altogether depriued of them, or haue experience of their insufficiency in yeelding vnto them any helpe.
- 1Corrupt man seeketh all other means, before he flieth unto God.Corrupt man seeketh all other meanes, before he flieth vnto God.
Lastly, we may observe, that the Lord taketh from those, 1which he purposeth to convert and save, all these Idols in whom they trust, and these outward means whereupon they rest, or at least, teacheth them by lamentable experience, that they are altogether insufficient to deliver them out of their afflictions. So he threateneth here, that his elect people following after their lovers, should not come at them, and seeking them (to the end they might be by their help delivered out of their afflictions) they should not find them, that so being made frustrate of their wicked hopes, and abandoned of all outward means, wherein they trusted, and despairing of all other help, might hereby be driven to flee unto the Lord for mercy and deliverance. And therefore, when being in